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Eco-Friendly Hemp Guitar Cabinet Hits The Market
Hard Truckers, the ambitious folks who managed to design, build, and maintain the Grateful Dead’s infamous 26,400-watt Wall of Sound (both on and off tour,) have introduced a new eco-friendly speaker cabinet made of pressed hemp, covered in renewable bamboo, and boasting two 12″ Tone Tubby Hempcone Speakers. Aimed at professional guitar players and weekend warriors [...]
Continue reading...Clapton & Mayer To Perform On Good Morning America Tomorrow
19. July 2007
Details are a bit sketchy at this point, but according to an e-mail going out from Fender, John Mayer and Eric Clapton are expected to perform on ABC’s Good Morning America between 8:00-9:00 a.m. tomorrow morning (Friday, July 20.) I’m not sure if this is purely a promotional tie-in, but Mayer was apparently Fender’s first customer [...]
Continue reading...Gibson Announces Guitar Of The Week #26 :: ‘61 SG Reissue Classic White
17. July 2007
Late last night Gibson posted specs for this week’s Guitar Of The Week, but I was too damned wrapped up in HBO’s Big Love to post… anyway, here it is: GOTW #26––the ‘61 SG Reissue done up in Classic White. As far as I can tell the only thing setting this instrument apart from Gibson’s production [...]
Continue reading...BOSS Recreates Roland RE-201 Space Echo In A Digital Pedal
12. July 2007
Apparently continuing with their recent push towards digitally re-creating some of the world’s most beloved analog guitar gear, BOSS today unveiled the RE-20 Space Echo twin pedal––a digitally modeled re-working of the classic RE-201 tape echo machine. The original Space Echo (right,) which was first offered by Roland beginning in the early-’70s (and stayed on the [...]
Continue reading...Gibson Introduces Limited Edition John Lennon Les Paul
11. July 2007
Gibson today announced yet another handsome addition to its small but illustrious Inspired By series of Custom Shop guitars–the new Limited Edition John Lennon Les Paul. The guitar, which will be produced in a very limited run of just 300 instruments, is a replica of the rather substantially modified early model Les Paul Junior that Lennon [...]
Continue reading...Holy Crud! Joe Strummer Telecaster Replica To Be Unveiled At NAMM
11. July 2007
“This is a public service announcement… with guitar!“ ––The Clash, Know Your Rights Legendary punk band The Clash’s Joe Strummer was one of my earliest guitar heros, so when he passed away in 2002 of an apparent congenital heart defect, like a lot of thirty-somethings who grew up on punk rock I found myself mortified, saddened, and [...]
Continue reading...Electro-Harmonix Unveils Old-School Germanium OD Pedal
10. July 2007
OK, maybe it’s because a mid-’70s Big Muff was the very first effects pedal I ever owned, but I’ve been an Electro-Harmonix fan as long as I can remember, and I’m always a bit excited when they announce a new gizmo for the guitar. Unfortunately, the company doesn’t tend to be really good at PR, but [...]
Continue reading...Fender Giving Away John Mayer’s Master-Built Continuum Stratocaster
9. July 2007
You know me––I’m a sucker for a guitar giveaway, and this one is better than most. According to a page that went up one their website this afternoon, Fender will be giving away the actual Custom Shop Master-Built Strat that John Mayer is using extensively on this Summer’s Continuum Tour. Currently there aren’t any specs available, but [...]
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20. July 2007
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